Hi Dud.

On Nov 17, 1:58 pm, Dudley Henriques wrote:
On Nov 17, 1:52 pm, romeomike wrote:



Dudley Henriques wrote:

Our international workgroup works quite well, although I'm beginning
to find some problems associated with forming a private email group
where public announcement is involved. :-)

Yeah, I think that may be a significant difference. Joining the
international work group you refer to, I suspect, is by invitation only,
whereas here anyone who reads this newsgroup can potentially gain access
to participants' email. They could then keep trashing the group by
changing their identity to avoid filters, as already happens here. Or
maybe, as I said before, I'm not understanding the mechanics.

I plan to join up after I figure out how I want to configure this, but
will be gone for 2 weeks first.

Regards

I think what we appear to be ending up with is quite simple and not
complicated at all. So far, it looks like a simple email loop
comprised of pilots contacting me off the forum. Most of us already
know each other from the forums and have prior knowledge that we get
along.
All we're doing is setting up a folder in our individual address
books that contains each of us as a group (just like a normal family
folder) and we communicate simply as friends with a common interest.
No big deal really and surely nothing "complicated".
All this means is that if one of us has a war story we'd like to share
with the others, we can do that either as a group or individually as
we see fit. The main difference is that we're not "posting" to the
world of idiots these forums have become.
Of course, if the mood hits us to take the punishment we find here,
naturally each one of us is free as a bird to come here and be
abused. :-)
In other words, what we're doing is simply gathering up a few pilots
who have become shall we say "a bit discouraged" with what's going
here these days and we're simply talking to each other back once in a
while when the mood hits us.
If anyone wanted to opt out of our little group, I think all they
would have to do is take their name off the list. Our email addresses
are only known to each other and so far anyway, we all seem to be
quite stable and normal folks :-)
One thing we are doing however is sending out the name of each person
who wants to join the group to all members of the group. We vote on
who we want with us based on the same criteria we used on each other.
Bad vote.....no new member....easy! So you can see by this that the
pilots on this little group of ours are friendly, competent, and
interested in aviation....ANY form of that venue BTW.
Dudley Henriques

You have good intentions and ideas.
We belong to a few email circles, normally for professional
scientists and engineers, usually set-up by pro-software
engineers, for example,
http://sugarshot.org/

The amateur circle you want to set-up works well enuff
too, BUT, if you're serious, contact the software manager
at the above org.
Regards
Ken
PS: If you intend to be the smartest poster in your circle,
you'll likely end up being the only poster.